Thanks for publishing the article “EPA: New pollution limits proposed for U.S coal, gas power plants reflect ‘urgency’ of climate crisis” [May 11, Business].
Shifting towards cleaner power requires the Environmental Safety Company to take daring motion to restrict energy plant emission requirements by 2024. The 2030s is simply too lengthy to attend for coal emissions reductions to kick in, given the rising local weather disaster we face.
Reductions ought to embrace not simply the most important coal crops, however the smaller gasoline crops situated within the yard of susceptible communities which can be unjustly affected by the well being results of such proximity. Even when we’re in a position to convert all of the methods that run on fossil fuels to electrical energy, we’d be producing an excessive amount of carbon as a result of the electrical energy would nonetheless come from coal and gasoline crops burning fossil fuels.
The preliminary draft has predictably incited fossil-fuel pursuits to predict doom for our energy grid.
Nevertheless, what the article ought to have talked about was that the EPA is opening a public remark interval quickly that lasts 60 days.
Individuals who care in regards to the well being of their households and communities ought to take 5 minutes from studying the information and urge the EPA to implement strict requirements on an accelerated timeline.
Naomi Davidson, Seattle